Citizens Stock Options
| CIA Stock | USD 4.45 0.19 4.09% |
Citizens' latest option contracts expiring on 2024-12-20 are carrying combined implied volatility of 0.23 with a put-to-call open interest ratio of 0.0 over 5 outstanding agreements suggesting investors are buying way more calls than puts on contracts expiring on 2024-12-20. The total put volume is at 23.0, with calls trading at the volume of 23.0. This yields a 1.77 put-to-call volume ratio.
Citizens' option chain provides insight into all available option contracts written on Citizens' stock. Investors can see outstanding put and call contracts with pricing information and greeks for a given expiration period. In addition, each of Citizens' stock options below provides a detailed picture of the payoff. Comparing vital and dynamic information of various option contracts across diverse expiration periods will help you make an educated decision on your market timing strategies around investing in a given Citizens option contract.
In The Money vs. Out of Money Option Contracts on Citizens
Analyzing Citizens' in-the-money options over time can help investors to take a profitable long position in Citizens regardless of its overall volatility. This is especially true when Citizens' options are deep in the money. These options can be identified using deltas that are over 0.75. Deep in-the-money Citizens' options could be used as guardians of the underlying stock as they move almost dollar for dollar with Citizens' stock while costing only a fraction of its price.
Citizens' stock options are financial instruments that give investors the right to buy or sell shares of Citizens common stock at a specified price for a given time period. Generally speaking, an option to purchase or sell Citizens stock makes it part of the underlying stock when the option's price is tied to the movement of the underlying stock. If Citizens' stock price goes up or down, the stock options follow.
At present, Citizens' Capital Stock is projected to increase significantly based on the last few years of reporting. The current year's Issuance Of Capital Stock is expected to grow to about 2.7 M, whereas Total Stockholder Equity is forecasted to decline to about 149.3 M. Citizens In The Money Call Balance
When Citizens' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Citizens stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying Citizens' options that are 'In the Money' or 'Out of the Money', the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
While 'out-of-the-money' option contracts written on Citizens are typically viewed as the more aggressive, there are potential upsides to purchasing these types of options contracts. For one, the cost to buy an 'Out of the Money' option is lower than the cost to buy an 'In the Money' option. This cost-benefit is due to the fact that at the time of the purchase, 'Out of the Money' contracts have no intrinsic value. So, while the potential for a 100% loss is more significant, the cost and risk to enter the trade are lower.
Citizens Current Options Market Mood
Citizens' open interest and total value indicators provide investors with the necessary information to digest the overall options buildup for its expiring contracts. In addition, it helps Citizens Stock's traders understand whether a recent fall or rise in the market is unreasonable and if the time has come to take contrarian positions. These ratios are calculated based on options trading volumes and current open interest.
Put-to-Call Volume
Unfortunately, most Citizens' options investors are not very successful. Citizens' option open interest and volume spread between outstanding puts and calls are regarded by many investors as reliable indicators of the overall future market direction.
Rule 16 of the current Citizens contract
Base on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Citizens will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0144% per day over the life of the 2024-12-20 option contract. With Citizens trading at USD 4.45, that is roughly USD 6.4E-4. If you think that the market is fully incorporating Citizens' daily price movement you should consider buying Citizens options at the current volatility level of 0.23%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
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Purchasing Citizens options can give investors a meaningful hedge against losses and, therefore, could be used conservatively to decrease the volatility of your portfolio. However, many options could also amount to little more than gambling, significantly enhancing your overall portfolio risk. One simple example of these aggressive strategies is the sale of "uncovered" Citizens calls. Remember, the seller must deliver Citizens stock to the call owner when a call is exercised.
Citizens Option Chain
When Citizens' strike price is surpassing the current stock price, the option contract against Citizens stock is said to be in the money. When it comes to buying options that are ITM or OTM, the choice depends on your outlook for the underlying security, financial situation, and what you are trying to achieve.
Citizens' option chain is a display of a range of information that helps investors for ways to trade options on Citizens. In general, an option chain provides a helpful tool for investors to see all available option contracts, both puts, and calls, for Citizens. It also shows strike prices and maturity days for a Citizens against a given expiration period. The table below combines all the option information in the form of a chain but before you use it, remember that it entails significant risk and it is not for everyone. | Open Int | Expiration | Current Spread | Last Price | |||
Call | CIA Option Call 20-12-2024 2 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 2.19 | In |
Call | CIA Option Call 20-12-2024 5 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.3 | |
Call | CIA Option Call 20-12-2024 7 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.02 | |
Put | CIA Option Put 20-12-2024 2 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.05 | |
Put | CIA Option Put 20-12-2024 5 | 0 | 2024-12-20 | 0.0 - 0.0 | 0.9 | In |
Citizens Selling And Marketing Expenses Over Time
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Citizens Total Stockholder Equity
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Citizens Corporate Directors
| Francis Keating | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Constance Weaver | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Terry Maness | Independent Director | Profile | |
| Christopher Claus | Independent Director | Profile |
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Is Life & Health Insurance space expected to grow? Or is there an opportunity to expand the business' product line in the future? Factors like these will boost the valuation of Citizens. If investors know Citizens will grow in the future, the company's valuation will be higher. The financial industry is built on trying to define current growth potential and future valuation accurately. All the valuation information about Citizens listed above have to be considered, but the key to understanding future value is determining which factors weigh more heavily than others.
Earnings Share 0.43 | Revenue Per Share 5.002 | Quarterly Revenue Growth 0.039 | Return On Assets 0.0076 | Return On Equity 0.1223 |
The market value of Citizens is measured differently than its book value, which is the value of Citizens that is recorded on the company's balance sheet. Investors also form their own opinion of Citizens' value that differs from its market value or its book value, called intrinsic value, which is Citizens' true underlying value. Investors use various methods to calculate intrinsic value and buy a stock when its market value falls below its intrinsic value. Because Citizens' market value can be influenced by many factors that don't directly affect Citizens' underlying business (such as a pandemic or basic market pessimism), market value can vary widely from intrinsic value.
Please note, there is a significant difference between Citizens' value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Citizens is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Citizens' price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.